Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War News ’ The Petrograd war office announced the recapture of the village of Vaden! in six miles Southwest of the Danube town of Gglatz. » * * Eight British and two French *veSF seis have been sunk in the Atlantic, and two British steamships captured by a Gorman raider. Announcement to this effect wits made by the British admiralty at London, * ■* ♦ • Russian forces undertook a violent attack in Roujnania on both sides of Fundeni. The war office report from Berlin says the advancing Russian iwaves were Cut down by the German fire, which inflicted great losses. » * * The allied tinny on the Saloniki front Will be re-enforced as a preliminary effprt to cut the , BerlinConstantinople . railroad, according to a dispatch to London from a British correspondent with General Sarrail’s forces. - ~ ’ ♦* . * The Belgian relief ship Samland, ■ which docked at New York, was held • up 400 miles off the Irish coast by the German commerce raider Moldavia. The Samland was allowed to-proceed because she carried supplies consigned to the American commissionfor relief in Belgium. • ♦ ♦ The presence in Greece of Gen. von Falkenhftyn, former- German chief i of staff and recently in command of part of the forces engaged in the cam- ; against Roumania, is reported I in French official quarters«at,Saioniki, i according to a Renter .dispatch to London from that .point. ♦ ♦ ♦ The sinking pf the Austrian passenger steamship Zagreb, 537 tons gross, by a submarine in the Adriatic on January 14, with the loss of 26 lives, is reported in a telegram to London from Vienna to Amsterdam, as forwarded in a Reuter dispatch. The Zagreb is reported to have been torpedoed without warning off the coast of central Dalmatia. ♦ * » Mexican War News Six Mexicans were killed by, two American cowboys, 30 miles west of Nogales, Ariz., when they were fired upon while herding back cattle “rustled" by the Mexicans. *♦* r - The Mexican-American joint commission, which failed to effect an adjustment of the questions at issue between Mexico and the United States after a series of conferences that began four months ago, was formally dissolved at New York. The American commission told the Mexicans that they had recommended to the president the dispatch to Mexico of Ambassador Fletcher and the withdrawal of the AjueriCtttt troops from Chihuahua. ■ ■ * * * The Villa chief, Zeferino Moreno, and 60 followers were killed in the "fight at Pilar de Conchos, Mex., Recording to details of that action received at Chihuahua City from Gen. Pablo.. Gonzales. . . ♦ * ♦ Domestic Joe Layton and Frank Carter, deputies, were shot while attempting to take suspects, of the Harrah bank robbery who had been corwered in a house southeast of Harrah, Okla. * ♦ » . A district court grand jury indictment made public at Corning, la., is against Swift & Co., packers, who are charged with discrimination in the purchase of poultry. It is alleged that higher prices were paid by its agents at Pres’cott. la.,'“ than were paid at -•Corning' upon the same day. Competition, it is said, is greater at Prescott than at Corning. '♦ ♦ ♦ Stimuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was in conference at Now York with David L. Fultz, president of the Baseball Players’ fraternity. After the‘meeting Mr. Gompers said, when asked if the players’ federation had joined the labor organization, “Nb, not yet, but soon.” a " '■ ’ * *' .* H. Grady Weblx_awtudent-at the Kansas City Metrical college, was arrested at Kansas City, Mo., charged with taking part in the daring robbery of a Baltimore & Ohio train near Doddridge, W. Va., October 8, 1915, when $100,OCX) in unsigned currency was stolen, Web] i confessed, according to the police. . : * * * Chicago’s bill regulation bfhoil, prohibiting billboards on residence streets without consent of ffiore than half- of -the' property owners, was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme court at' Washington in the Thomas. Cusack company’s suits against the,city. * ♦ * V • . President Samuel Gompers of the American Fecferation of Labor told the house- commerce .committee at Washington that if’ any legislation to make a strike unlawful were enacted ! he, 'for one, Could be counted upon as . one of those who would violate it. '; ’

| Physicians at the hospital in Philadelphia where Harry K. Thaw, who attempted to connnit suicide last week by slashing himself with a ragor, is a patient, said that was not recovering as rapidly as had been expected arid expressed concern both as to his meiital and physical condition, ‘ " Weldbin. H. Wells, former Kansas City brokers’ clerk, confessed to County Prosecutor K. P. Duncan,at Columbus, O„ that he shot and killed Mona

Byron Simon iil a room in a hotel. His statement, according to the authorities, says he' killed the girl in self-de-fense. Wells was arrested in Huntington, Ind. Personal - * Admiral George Dewey, who won the naval battle at Manila bay, died at his home in Washington, at the age of seventy-nine, after an illness lasting six days. Admiral Dewey’s illness was diagnosed as arterio sclerosis. Dewey was born at Montpelier, Vt., on December 27, 1837. * ♦ e Washington . The president sent a special message to Congress at Washington formally announcing tile death of Admiral Dewey ami paying tribute to the dead naval hero, by saying that “the people and the government of the United States will always rejoice to perpetuate his name in all honor* and affection.” ♦ • * The United States government at Washington has been forced to go to England to secure _ its 16 and 14-inch shells for the navy. The navy department awarded to Hatfields, Limited, of’ London, contracts for 3.000 16-inch shells, at $514 each, and 4,500 14-inch shells, at $350 ea ( ch, delivery in 16 months. * ♦ ♦ ♦ The entente allies, in a note addressed by Arthur Balfour, forein minister, to Ambassador Spring-Rice, and delivered to the state department at Washington, amplify their reply 'to President Wilson’s peace note, by explaining in detail why they believe it impossible at present <o attain peace which will assure them such guarantees as they consider essential. ♦ * * Sovereignty over the Danish West Indies, after half a century of negotiation, passed to the United States’with the exchange- of i*atiflcations of the purchase treaty by Secretary Lansing and Danish Minister Brun at Washington. * * * Indorsement by the Vatican of President Wilson’s peace efforts was transmitted to the president at Washington, as the administration sought to work out the next move in the peace negotiations. • * • The house ways and means committee at Washington agreed on the plan for raising sufficient money to pay the government’s bills. Special taxes will be, provided to raise $236,000,000 and bonds will be issued to the extent of $219,000,000. . ?

*** ■ ' , Thomas W. Lawson, called before the house rules committee at Washington to tell what he knew or had heard about a stock market leak on President 1 Wilson’s peace note or be punished, declared that the mysterious congressman who told him a cabinet oflicer, a senator and a banker were engaged in a stock gambling pool was hone other than Representative Henry, chairman of the committee. Then, he declared,, that* the cabinet officer referred to was Secretary McAdoo; that the banker was H. Pliny Fiske of New York, and that he knew the senator only by the initial “O.” All of the men that he named denied the charges. * * * The federal white slave law was construed by the Supreme court at Washington to prohibit interstate transportation of women for any immoral purpose, including private escapades as well as commercialized vice. In three test cases the court in a divided opinion affirmed convictions of F. Drew Caminetti ami Maury I. Diggs and L. T. Hays. . ‘ * * * The United States Chamber of Commerce reports at Washington that a referendum taken by it shows that the business interests of the country are in favor of combinations to conserve natural resources, *♦ * . Possible renewal of last year’s, fight over warning Americans off armed ships was presaged when Representative Cary, Milwaukee, . introduced a‘ joint resolution in the house at Washington calling for such a warning to-be issued, .* ♦ • In a peculiar “tie” decision which lawyers say has never had a parallel the Supreme court_at Washington dethe railway mail “divisor” case, involving payment to railroads of more than $46,000,000, adversely to the Chicago & Alton and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroads, affirming the decision in the Court of claims. ♦ * * • Foreign t The food situation in Germany has become much worse in the last six months, according to the. account ofa correspondent who has returned to Stockholm from a trip to Berlin. * * * King Constantine- of Greece, the bro her-in-law and would-be ally of the ktiiser,'is to be deposed and a relative of file .king of Italy placed on his throne, it is understood at Rome. » ' ' " ' ’ ■ . 41“ r ' • ,